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Here come the waterworks...
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Symbols tears alas shmoop veronica
- 00:11
franco will recall is the one who spoke a lot
- 00:13
about personal experience Who's interested in celebrating the range of
- 00:16
experiences and two included like her own tears in her
- 00:20
work and queen elizabeth the first when she talks about
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- 00:23
being made of melting snow right in the poem not
- 00:26
in her speech in the poem absolutely not In the
- 00:28
speech to the troops she is evoking this idea of
- 00:31
tears and softness and frailty It also appears all the
- 00:36
time in julian of norwich these images of like bodily
- 00:39
excretion and in march really well all right marjorie camp
- 00:42
she's always walking around crying so women's emotional illness and
- 00:46
outward displays of emotion can happen all the time And
- 00:49
these texts because it's a cliche right it's like saying
- 00:52
that's used to hold women down and women are also
- 00:54
trying to deal with that and figure out whether tears
- 00:57
are always dead or whether it was going to valuable
- 00:59
expressions of agency right today Absolutely And i think that's
- 01:03
where veronica franco is key probably sums it up quite
- 01:06
nicely Tears are many things And when women cry it
- 01:11
can mean many things and that is fine How have
- 01:17
tears shown up in the works of various authors How
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does society typically treat women who cry According to franco
- 01:23
what do tears mean Studies show crying is useful in 00:01:32.349 --> [endTime] times of drought
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